Author Archives: catcream

Today I’ve done pretty much the exact same thing as yesterday. I continued to fix some things with QtWebEngine and sent a PR to ::gentoo (yay!). I also tested a few more applications on my laptop but got really stuck … Continue reading →

Today I’ve filled in the midterm evaluation and continued to work on QtWebEngine to make it ::gentoo-ready. I’m pretty happy with most of the patches and I only need someone to look through them. I’ve also tested some core KDE … Continue reading →

Hi! This week has been mostly dedicated to QtWebEngine, a package that bundles Chromium, which in turn bundles a bunch of libraries (:D). It took a lot longer than I initially thought while planning GSoC, but nonetheless I finished all … Continue reading →

In my proposal I stated that this week should be dedicated to squashing bugs, getting test suites to pass and just getting the Plasma desktop itself to be “daily driver ready” (not the KDE apps). As the Plasma desktop basically … Continue reading →

This day has been mostly dedicated to reinstalling my musl development desktop. Throughout this project I’ve been putting various small patches into /etc/portage/patches, as well as “make install:ing” some things and forgetting about them.

As I used the #gentoo-soc-musl channel as a mini-blog Blueknight suggested to me that I’d do small daily blog posts instead. Today I’ve worked on a lot of different and seemingly unrelated stuff. To start with I fixed plocate to … Continue reading →

OpenRC and the hidden segfault Hi! This time we will take a look at a rabbit hole involving debugging segmentation faults caused at the init(8) boot stage. I first noticed something was wrong when seeing this in my boot messages: … Continue reading →